Word: whitten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...class, Robert Coleman (Quincy) beat David Whitten (Dunster). Lee Alexander (Quincy) bested Rodolphe d'Erlanger (Eliot) in the 145 lb. finals...
...Second District of Mississippi is represented in Congress by Jamie Whitten, a 54-year-old ex-school teacher who knows that survival in Mississippi politics means talking against the government. He has voted against all of the Kennedy-Johnson program, and his votes have paid off for him. When his district was merged with another Congressman's in 1962, Whitten survived; he charged that his opponent had "gone to bed with the Kennedys" (by, for instance, voting for the Peace Corps). After 23 years in Congress, Whitten has risen to the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Appropriations for Agriculture...
...Whitten continues to vote against programs that would pull his district out of the mud, and the district continues to send him back to Washington. For in Whitten's district, only a few of the 59.1 per cent of the citizens who are Negroes can vote. And these are people whose poverty the government programs are designed to aid: their median income is $700 below the meager district-wide average...
This January, Mississippi's energetic Freedom Democratic Party will bring five of its members to Washington and ask the House to seat them in place of Jamie Whitten and his colleagues. They will ask this on the grounds that the system of Congressional representation has broken down. Congressmen are supposed to represent their constituents. Few Mississippi Negroes are permitted to vote for Congressmen, and 42 per cent of Mississippians are Negroes...
Featured speakers will include Mrs. Fannie-Lou Hamer, a former sharecropper who is running in the Second Congressional District of Mississippi for the seat now held by Rep. Jamie Whitten...